Overview
The Cash Drawer feature within Tekmetric can be used to reconcile your cash and checks on hand at the end of the day in order to close out the day properly. This feature allows you to:
- Enter the opening count for the day
- Track all relevant cash and check transactions for the day
- Enter petty cash in and out for the day
- Close out the day, including:
- Making sure the cash count is correct
- Choosing how much cash you want to leave in the drawer
- Viewing the deposit total for the day
- Audit cash drawer history via reports
- Choose whether you want to require the drawer to be closed daily or not
Cash Drawer Permissions and Entry Point
You can choose which employees have access to the Cash Drawer feature within the Employee Permissions section of Tekmetric. There is a new Cash Drawer permission (located in between the Payments and Reports permissions) that controls whether or not the employee can use the Cash Drawer feature.
The Cash Drawer permission is ON by default for the Shop Owner and Shop Admin employee role types.
The Cash Drawer feature is located in Reports > Financial Reports. Even though the Cash Drawer feature is located in this section, an employee does NOT need Financial Report permissions to access the feature. You can just turn on the Cash Drawer permission and they'll be able to access it, even without the Financial Report permissions on.
Opening Drawer
When you navigate to the Cash Drawer, you'll be taken to the Active page. From this page you can open the drawer, add receipts, and close the drawer.
At the beginning of the day, this entire page will be disabled except for the Open Drawer option. You must open the drawer in order to begin using all cash drawer functionality.
When you select the Open Drawer option, the below modal will appear that lets you enter in the count of coins and bills in your drawer. You will be able to reference the previous day's ending balance. You can also provide a note if needed - this will be required if the balances do not match.
Once you open the drawer, you will see that the Cash In and Cash Out options are now enabled, and the Open Drawer option has changed to a Close Drawer option. You can now start using the Cash Drawer feature throughout the day.
Note: If you forget to close the drawer from the previous day, you will see a banner letting you know that you must do so before opening the new day's drawer.
Viewing Transactions for the Day
Once the drawer is opened, you will be able to see all relevant cash and check transactions that Tekmetric automatically captures throughout the day. Things like payments on ROs, credit memos on return orders, refunds on ROs, purchase orders paid with cash, and many more transactions will automatically appear in the Cash Drawer table as they happen throughout the day. See the FAQs section at the bottom of this page for a full list of what Tekmetric captures.
Only transactions for the current day's drawer will appear. Other history is displayed in the History section (more on that below).
Entering Manual Receipts for the Day
You have the ability to enter Cash In and Cash Out receipts within the Active Cash Drawer page.
Cash In receipts represent petty cash or checks coming into your drawer for transactions that are NOT automatically captured by Tekmetric. You can select between Cash and Check in the Type drop-down. The only other required field is the Total.
Cash Out receipts represent petty cash that is leaving your cash drawer during transactions that are NOT automatically captured in Tekmetric already. All of these receipts will be considered cash (you cannot choose check as the type). Again, the only required field is Total.
Once you've entered receipts for the day, your table will look something like below - a mix of transactions that Tekmetric captures and manual receipts. Cash out is represented in red with a negative value, while Cash in is positive and black.
Automatically captured transactions cannot be edited from within the Cash Drawer. Users have to navigate into the entity (the actual RO, for example), in order to edit these transactions.
Manual Receipts can be edited as long as a few conditions are met:
- It's still the same day that the receipt was entered
- The drawer is not yet closed
- The person attempting to edit the receipt is the same person that entered the receipt originally
Closing the Drawer for the Day
Once you're ready to close the drawer for the day, you can select the Close Drawer option. When you do this, the first screen to appear will ask you to enter the quantity of all your coins and bills and the total value of any checks in your drawer.
In the next step, you'll be able to review the cash drawer report before submitting it and officially closing the drawer for the day. See below for an example of what this report looks like. Details on all line items are below.
Cash Section
- Starting Cash Balance = Balance that you entered when opening the drawer for the day
- Counted Cash on Hand = Total of cash counted in the previous step
- Calculated Cash Transactions = Sum of Cash Paid In, Cash Paid Out, and Cash Drawer Receipts
- Cash Paid In = Cash Payments taken on ROs, Counter Sales, and within Accounts Receivable; Cash credit memos on Return Orders.
- Cash Paid Out = Cash Refunds on ROs, Counter Sales, and Refund Invoices; Cash Payments in Accounts Payable; Cash payments on Purchase Orders and Sublets (outside of A/P)
- Cash Drawer Receipts = Net total of all cash receipts entered for the day
- Cash Over/Short = Counted Cash on Hand - Starting Cash Balance - Calculated Cash Transactions
- Ending Cash Balance = Manual Input. Enter the amount you want to leave in the drawer at the end of the day.
- Total Cash Deposit = Counted Cash on Hand - Ending Cash Balance
Checks Section
- Counted Checks on Hand = Total value of checks counted in previous step
- Calculated Check Transactions = Sum of Checks Paid In and Checks from Drawer Receipts
- Checks Paid In = Check Payments taken on ROs, Counter Sales, and within Accounts Receivable; Check credit memos on Return Orders
- Checks from Drawer Receipts = Net total of all check receipts entered for the day
- Check Over/Short = Counted Checks on Hand - Calculated Check Transactions
- Total Check Deposit = Sum of Counted Checks on Hand
Other
- Cash and Check Deposit Total = Total Cash Deposit + Total Check Deposit
If Cash Over/Short or Check/Over Short is not equal to $0, then you are required to enter in a note in the form. Otherwise, the closing drawer note is optional.
Once the drawer is closed for the day, it cannot be re-opened. See below for what a closed drawer looks like.
Cash Drawer History
You can view a history of all your cash drawer reports by selecting History in the drop-down available in the upper right corner of the report. You'll be taken to a table that contains entries for all days that have cash drawer reports available.
You can drill down into a specific day's report and see the closing drawer report for the day, as well as all the receipts entered during that day.
You will also be able to view the opening and closing drawer counts for the day.
Cash Drawer Duration Configuration
Shop Owners have the power to choose between requiring their drawer to be closed daily or allowing it to be open for multiple days. This setting can be useful for shops that only make one trip a week to the bank for a deposit, for example.
If you're an Owner account type, you will see a settings icon in the upper right hand corner of the Cash Drawer.
When you select this icon, you will see a modal in which you can change your Cash Drawer settings. There are two options currently (more detailed descriptions below):
- Require drawer to be closed daily (toggle on)
- Do not require drawer to be closed daily (toggle off)
In order to change this setting, the Cash Drawer must already be closed for the day.
So what does this setting actually do to the Cash Drawer? Details below.
- Require drawer to be closed daily (toggle on)
- If you make this selection for your shop, each Cash Drawer has to be opened and closed within the same day. See above in this article for details.
- Do not require drawer to be closed daily (toggle off)
- If you make this selection for your shop, Tekmetric allows the Cash Drawer to stay open for more than one day at a time. Once a drawer is opened, it stays open until someone in your shop closes it (maximum time period that the drawer can stay open is 31 days).
- Throughout the “drawer open” period, the transactions table in the Cash Drawer will display all relevant transactions for that entire period and will display the time period at the top of the page.
- When someone in your shop closes the drawer, Tekmetric takes all transactions for the “drawer open period” into account when closing the Cash Drawer and creating the final report.
- The History section also takes these changes into account - the report for each period displays the exact time period at the top of the page.
In the examples below, you can see the transactions table and history page for the time period covering multiple days: 3/14/25-3/18/25.
FAQs
Will I have the ability to set up multiple drawers in one shop?
- No, at this time there is only one drawer available per shop per day.
Does the Cash Drawer integrate with Accounting Link?
- No, at this time there is no integration available with Accounting Link.
What types of cash and check transactions in Tekmetric are automatically captured by Tekmetric throughout the day?
- Payments
- Cash and Check payments on ROs, Countersales, and Accounts Receivable
- Credit Memos
- Cash and Check credit memos on Return Orders
- Refunds
- Cash Refunds on ROs, Countersales, and Refund Invoices
- Purchase Orders
- Cash payments for purchase orders done through A/P and not done through A/P
- Sublets
- Cash payments for sublets done through A/P and not done through A/P